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dog-sized

dog-sized

1 2.1
About the size of a pet dog
  • adjective
  • /dɔɡ-saɪzd/
translation icon : tamaño de perro
  • There is a dog-sized hole under the fence, and crunching sounds can be heard from the yard next door.

I mean, I've seen like they're almost dog sized, so.

Examples

  • The dog-sized creature walked upright and had a mouthful of curved, serrated teeth—the signature of a carnivorous lifestyle.

  • I mean, I've seen like they're almost dog sized, so.

    Theo Von Clips

  • By the time he'd eased the car to a stop in the darkness and turned off the motor, I was up and staring bleary-eyed at what appeared to be a dog-sized stone or lump of mud set down at the end of the headlights' beam.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • The dog-sized robot can run up to 10 mph, and the researchers say a human-sized version could run at 20 or 30 mph.

Synonyms

medium-sized
vsdog-sized
31 2.4

Of a size between small and large

is more specific, indicating a particular common pet size
medium-size
vsdog-sized
3 2.3

Of a size between small and large

is used adjectivally to indicate that specific common pet size

How Big

human-sized
3 3.5
dog-sized
1 2.1
thumb-sized
1 2.2
mouse-sized
1 3.5

Surface Forms

dog-sized positive

Morphology

dog-sized = dog (transparent) = dog + sized

Formed by the productive suffix 'sized' attached to the noun 'dog' to mean 'of the size of a dog', which is directly inferable.

Etymology

Dog-sized is a simple compound of dog and -sized, which literally means 'having the size of a dog'. So when something is dog-sized you can picture it as about the size of an average dog, which makes the meaning easy to remember.